4. With a wide spatula or your fingers, transfer cookies to buttered or cooking parchment-lined 12- by 15-inch baking sheets, spacing them about 1 inch apart. Gather scraps, pat into a ball, and repeat rolling and cutting.

6. With a wide spatula, transfer cookies to racks to cool. If hot cookies start to break, slide a thin spatula under them to release; let stand on sheets to firm up, about 5 minutes, then transfer to racks to cool completely.

Recipe from "Sunset" Magazine

* These are best made a bit thicker, not thinner & are easier to grasp to dip in the icing that way.

Honestly, sometimes I like my blotting towel more than my painting! It's like that feeling you get when you dump all the Easter egg coloring dye colors in the sink.

So happy to find these here :-) I was inspired to do some of my own as you know! And will do many more in the future. Thank you so much for sharing your talent and creativity. They are tiny works of art.

Mari, I'm a newbie to your wonderful site - seems like I'm a few "years" behind your first entry - but I'll try to catch up! Question re your artistic painted cookies - where is your favorite place/site to buy the various shaped cookie cutters? Especially the bird houses and the bees.

I'm so thankful I found your blog - blessed are we for your gifts. I just completed the Wilton 4 Course cake decorating classes and to make these cookies would be the Grand Finale of baking and decorating to me.

Hello :)I recently made some cookies for my sisters birthday, and painted the icing with food colouring... I used pre-made icing from a roll (I don't know what royal icing is I'm afraid!) but that was nearly 4 days ago and the colouring is still not completely dry :(Do you know if it's the icing I used (not absorbant enough etc.) or the food colouring?Any help would be very much apprciated!Thank you, and lovely cookies by the way!Chloe :)

Wow, thank you for getting back to me so quickly... I'll definitely try it, it's bound to work better than when I tried it last time, as I just thought of it on a whim and didn't really know anything about it!

AWESOME! Whenever I try to do pretty stuff, I feel like I try for Martha Stewart and end up with a fourth grader...and not even Martha as a fourth grader. Dipping cookies came into my life and is WONDERFUL. My MIL used to paint her Christmas cookies and we weren't sure if painting on top of icing would work, thus my falling over your GORGEOUS little pretties. You should sell those in a local coffee shop! Thanks so much for the info.

5-Star Portobello "Pepper-Steak" ~ Vegetarian

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